ALAMOSA — The Alamosa Police Department (APD) was dispatched to Burger King, 2501 Main Street in Alamosa, at about 8:30 on Friday morning where staff reported a male had locked himself in the bathroom and would not come out. The staff noticed water coming from under the door.   

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On March 5, the National Park Service reported a record 331.9 million recreation visits in calendar year 2024. 

ALAMOSA — Alamosa City Council started Wednesday night's meeting with a proclamation designating the week of March 9-15 as AmeriCorps Week 2025. The proclamation, signed by Mayor Pro Tem Liz Hensley in Mayor Coleman's absence, heralded AmeriCorps as a smart investment in local communities that also creates service opportunities that strengthen communities and expand pathways to education, careers, and civic participation for 200,000 volunteers each year. 

ALAMOSA — Various organizations, non-profits and municipalities from the San Luis Valley participated in a Zoom call last week with the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA).  

SAN LUIS — The Sangre de Cristo Acequia Association (SdCAA) will hold the annual Congreso de Acequias in San Luis on Saturday, March 8. 

ALAMOSA — After travel schedules required canceling the last meeting, the Alamosa City Council is holding its first regularly scheduled meeting in a month at 7 p.m. today. 

GREAT SAND DUNES — Among the thousands of supporters of the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service gathered across the country on Saturday, were about 60 people gathered at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. They assembled to protest recent firings of park and forest service employees.  

MONTE  VISTA — Since 2024, local artists and other creative have enjoyed the art space, The Church Project, located in the former First Baptist Church on South Broadway Street. 

ALAMOSA — For more than half of her life, Alamosa resident Cathy O’Neill has worked for Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS), the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) primary private land conservation agency. 

APD arrests two suspects on drug charges following search warrant of property at 716 Hunt Avenue, Apartment E in Alamosa

ALAMOSA — Last November, voters in the Alamosa School District (ASD) were asked to vote on a ballot measure for a $28 million bond to support ASD in much-needed improvements. The bond failed by a six-point margin, 47% to 53%.  

ALAMOSA — At the Feb. 26 meeting of the Alamosa County Board of County Commissioners, the filing of a grant application to the Colorado Division of Veterans Affairs was approved. 

ALAMOSA — The City of Alamosa has announced that construction of a SpringHill Suites hotel on the old Walsh Hotel property, 615 6th St., will begin the week of March 3. Construction could take up to 18 months, and some public parking will be impacted. 

ALAMOSA — Hazel Petty, a lifelong resident of the San Luis Valley and currently a resident of Alamosa, will be 100 years old on March 18. 

ALAMOSA — The Adams State University "High School Mixed Choir Festival," a prestigious event, returned to Alamosa on Feb. 20-22. It featured some of the finest high school choral musicians in the Southwest, including both an auditioned symphonic choir and director-recommended concert choir. 

ALAMOSA — In an effort to meet President Trump’s priorities of boosting border security and extending tax cuts, lawmakers in the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. have been negotiating a budget resolution that could potentially include an $880 billion cut to Medicaid over the next ten years. The cuts would be put in place to offset the $4.5 trillion tax cuts implemented during Trump’s first administration that are set to expire next year. 

MONTE VISTA – The Monte Vista City Council approved a separation agreement with Police Chief Sean McDonagh on Feb. 20.  

ALAMOSA — It’s always difficult to be without transportation, but that’s especially true in the San Luis Valley where a routine visit to the doctor can be a 30-mile, one-way trip.  

MONTE VISTA — The Rio Grande National Forest spans 1.86 million acres, or about 2,900 square miles, and is the headwaters of the eponymous Rio Grande, which flows 1,896 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. Over the last week, Washington has directed the National Forest to immediately terminate about a fifth of its employees. 

ALAMOSA — It’s been a rough flu season this year with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reporting that the number of cases is higher than it has been in the past 15 years.  And Colorado is no exception.